Projects as Arenas for Renewal and Learning Processes
Projects as Arenas for Renewal and Learning Processes

Author: Rolf A. Lundin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1461556910

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There is a growing tendency to organize various aspects of business life by projects, and to set up temporary organizations in a competition where speed and adaptability becomes a major necessity. Organizing by projects is perceived as a good way to ensure action and to stress the importance of getting work done. However, there is a need to balance the stress on action so that learning capabilities are not only retained, but augmented. Projects as Arenas for Renewal and Learning Processes provides examples of how different types of projects function from a learning or renewal perspective, taken from a wide variety of real-life environments in industrial and public organizations. This book illustrates the mistaken habit of assuming too much in the project area: for example, project notions are, in fact, culture-dependent; classical market-oriented contracting business relations do not fit with the learning dimension of projects; and long-term learning on core competencies and product development projects need to be connected. The book is also intended to represent many of the research frontiers in the project field. Enhancing learning capabilities is - or should be - of a mutual concern to researchers and managers alike.

International Organizations
International Organizations

Author: LeRoy W. Richardson

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0788139029

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The U.N. Development Program's (UNDP) core mission is to help countries achieve sustainable human development. The central financing and coordinating mechanism for development assistance within the U.N. system, the UNDP provides advisory services, training, and equipment across a variety of sectors, including agriculture and international trade, to developing countries. This report reviews U.S. participation in the UNDP and provides an assessment of the progress that UNDP has made in reducing administrative costs and improving its ability to coordinate and assess the impact of U.N. development assistance activities.

New Serial Titles
New Serial Titles

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 1756

ISBN-13:

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

The Project Book
The Project Book

Author: Colin D. Ellis

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0730371468

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** Winner AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - BEST GENERAL BUSINESS BOOK 2020 ** Finalist AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - BEST BOOK 2020 Deliver great projects every time Projects are the lifeblood of organisations, but many projects fall short of expectations because of poor project management and/or poor project sponsorship. In The Project Book, author and 20-year project management and sponsorship veteran Colin D Ellis teaches you the skills and behaviours required to make your projects succeed, every time. The best projects, whether they are delivered in an agile or waterfall way, are a result of the people that lead them and the environment they create. This fail-safe and comprehensive handbook shows you how to develop the mindset and communication skills to create projects that leave a legacy for you, your team and your organisation. Project leaders and senior managers in all business and technical disciplines will benefit from the insightful guidance this book offers and better project outcomes will result. Split into two parts, individually addressing Project Leaders and Project Sponsors, this book guides large project facilitators to understand the importance of people over processes. become a project leader that people trust build a team culture of collaboration, agility and creativity upskill executives so that they’re catalysts for transformation develop the organisational discipline needed for successful projects create a mature environment for your projects to thrive Engaging, informative and humorous, The Project Book will help project managers, project sponsors, scrum masters and product owners across all organisations to deliver successful projects in a way that customers will talk about for years.